Newport Harbor Football Preview vs. Huntington Beach

Newport Harbor (2-4, 0-1) vs. Huntington Beach (3-3, 1-0)

When/where: Friday, 7 p.m. at Huntington Beach High

Key Sailors: Jr. RB Cole Kinder (116 carries for 673 yards and four rushing TDs, one receiving TD); Jr. QB Michael Bonds (77 of 141 passing for 891 yards, eight TDs and four INTs); Jr. LB Gage Roberson; Sr. DL Max Durante

Key Oilers: Sr. RB Hunter Simmons (107 carries for 968 yards and 11 rushing TDs); Sr. WR John Davis (16 catches for 268 yards and three TDs); Sr. LB Bradley Partch (team-best 28 tackles)

Breakdown: The Sailors try to avoid their second straight loss to open Sunset League play, and fifth straight overall, in the road game at Huntington Beach ... Newport Harbor, which lost to Fountain Valley, 51-10, in the league opener last week, has lost four in a row for the first time since 1995, when the skid hit five games ... Huntington Beach opened league last week with a 32-0 win over Marina ... Neither team is ranked in the CIF Southern Section West Valley Division, and the only Sunset League team that is ranked is Edison (3-3, 1-0) at No. 9 .... Newport Harbor is 3-3 against Huntington Beach since the Oilers joined the Sunset League in 2010, a mark that includes Huntington’s 42-28 win in the 2013 Southwest Division title game at Angel Stadium ... The Sailors edged the Oilers, 52-48, in the league opener last season, holding on for the win on Keaton Cablay’s game-ending interception in the end zone ... That game ended up key in the CIF playoff race, as the Sailors finished third in league and made it while the Oilers finished fourth and didn’t ... Simmons is fourth in Orange County in rushing yards and has reached the 100-yard mark in five of the Oilers’ first six games.

— Matt Szabo